Showing posts with label Tesla. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tesla. Show all posts

25 September 2009

Fairness in Funding? Tesla vs. Ford and Nissan

CNN Announcement of USG Grant to Tesla Motors

A tweet highlighted this small business predicament.
RT @timoreilly: Tesla gets $465M DOE loan to build "model S" - Ford got $4.9B and Nissan $1.6B under same program.
It's generally accepted that a different set of rules applies for extremely large firms, yet a core tenet of capitalist Herbert Spencer's Survival of the Fittest suggests a different policy. What about firms smaller than Tesla? Shouldn't better ideas receive the larger share of funding?